What's the best projected image size using projectors?
Hi guys
To all of you who've been working with large screens via projectors, I have a question for you that I have meant to ask for a quite a while now.
I have a nice little projector that is capable of producing a nice size image, and I have plenty of room, so that's not an issue. My only limiting feature is the max resolution of my project, being a native 800x600 and up to 1280x1024 or 1024x768. This particular projector has not been used for my sim yet, but Ive played some console games (COD4 and Halo3) and it looked great. In the past I borrowed a lessor projector for the sim and it looked good too. I simply mounted the projector over the sim then and got the best image possible from what I had to work with. Now I have a large room all to myself and was wondering how big I should aim for.
So, since the 'world' is as big as the world, then how do we determine how big our forward out the window view should be projected to? Seems like since the runway in real life is typically 100' wide or more that we should aim to have our projected image as large as possible before it becomes too grainy (and assuming we can get the image to show properly without distortion).
What are the thoughts on this, when building a full scale 'pit?